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Home » Protecting Children » 10 Tips on Keeping Kids Safe While Sharing Videos Online

10 Tips on Keeping Kids Safe While Sharing Videos Online

safety_tips_video_sharingWith a lot of barbecue parties, family vacations, pool-side parties and other outdoor activities happening this summer, you could be busy in shooting and sharing lots of photos and videos. After all, the fun of shooting videos doubles when we share those with our folks, relatives and friends. And here come a few serious alerts: are you sharing videos safely online? Are you sure that you are not attracting online predators towards your kids by sharing family videos online? After all, we need to be careful to maintain our privacy and safety online while uploading and sharing video content over YouTube, Vimeo etc., and other video sharing sites. So, what are the main factors to keep in mind to post and share videos on the Internet? If you have not figured out yet, then take a look at the following tips on safe online video sharing.

Educate kids about safety concerns of sharing video online

Nowadays, kids are quite tech literate that they can handle technicalities of shooting videos using Smartphone camera, kid friendly video shooter and cameras or your point and shoot or DSLR. They are also capable of posting and promoting those videos online through various video sharing sites and social networking sites. Hence, it is imperative to educate and alert of privacy issues and safety threats that may arise from sharing videos online.

Introduce your kids to kid-safe and family friendly video sharing sites and networks 

There are many websites and video sharing social networks that are developed to cater to the safety concerns involved in sharing kids’ videos online. As a parent, you can sign up or register with these sites, read privacy policies and approve your kids to share their videos online. Many of these sites provide username and passwords to sign-in and share videos through these sites only to parents to give them ultimate parental control over their kids’ online video sharing. Familiarize your kids to child-safe and family-friendly video sharing sites like Kidvideos.com, KidzVuz, Yomod.com, Kidzbop.com and TurboNick.

Along with keeping these sites and safety issues in mind, I would also recommend you to check out top 10 safety tips on video sharing provided by ConnectSafely.org. Keep these safety tips on sharing videos from experts handy to ensure that you are adhering to safety rules and are better able to protect your kids from child predators while sharing videos online.

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Source: ConnectSafely

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Bidisha wanted to buy a new cell phone and her thorough research for gadgets revealed her passion for technology. Gradually, she found her drawn to everything related to technology and her work which involves extensive research and writing on new gadgets, apps, and smarter use of technology. Careful, her mission is to manipulate technology-naïve women to juice up their ordinary lives with use of technology.

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